Product Description

Maeve Tremayne must risk everything, including her love for compassionate army doctor Calder Holbrook, to save her fellow vampires and humanity from a tyrannical vampire queen. By the best-selling author of Forever and the Night. Reprint.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #445497 in Books
• Published on: 1994-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 341 pages

Amazon.com Review
Written more in the vein of Anne Rice's well-known vampire series than the traditional vampire romance (if such a thing exists), this second book in Linda Lael Miller's vampire quartet takes place in a setting inhabited by angels, warlocks, vampires, and mortals, all very literally at each others' throats.

Powerful vampire Maeve Tremayne revels in her immortality. Free to travel at will through time and place, she is restricted only by the rising of the sun. Just and honest, she takes nourishment only from the cruelest members of mortal society, those who are "truly evil, not just misguided," except when she eases the journey of the dying by offering them a final moment of ecstasy and release from pain. During one of these missions of mercy to the dying soldiers in a Civil War field hospital, she meets Dr. Calder Holbrook. Calder has heard the tales of a beautiful angel who roams the battlefield and takes the dying to their rest, but he believed she was only a morphine-fueled dream of men in pain until he sees her for himself. Maeve tries to put the mortal doctor out of her mind. Her brother loved a mortal and gave up his immortality for her, condemning himself to an eventual human death; she refuses to follow his example. Her attraction to Calder is too strong, however, and she finds herself drawn back to his time--and eventually into his arms. Unfortunately, complications arise that threaten the growing relationship between Maeve and Calder. Maeve finds herself the reluctant champion of her kind when she is called upon to track down and destroy the mad vampire queen, Lisette, whose depravity threatens to bring down the wrath of the warrior angels on all immortals--vampires and warlocks alike. Maeve must strike an alliance with the enemy warlocks for their mutual protection and garner their help for her battle with Lisette. Her love for Calder makes her vulnerable, however, and in her fear that Lisette might strike at her through him, she makes him a virtual prisoner. Calder, who has demons of his own past to battle, chafes at Maeve's protectiveness, which threatens to drive a wedge between them.

Linda Lael Miller's For All Eternity succeeds as an intriguing story on two levels, both as a sensual, otherworldly romance and as an intense and dramatic battle of wits between two powerful and vastly different creatures of the night.

From Booklist
In a companion story to Forever and the Night, Aidan Tremayne's sister Maeve utilizes her abilities as a vampire to travel through time to lead a rebellion against the queen of the vampires. During her travels, Maeve meets and falls in love with a mortal Civil War doctor, Calder Holbrook. Calder is fascinated by Maeve and returns her love, but Maeve is determined to erase his memories of her to protect him from her enemies. Before Maeve erases his memories, Calder is drawn into her war that pits vampire against vampire with the future of the undead at stake. Maeve's vampires race against a deadline to stop the queen, Lisette, before her actions cause the angels, led by Nemesis, to destroy all undead creatures. Highly recommended for all collections, and a necessity wherever the first book was popular. Melanie ^IDuncan

Customer Reviews

I Cheered For The Vampires
An excellent vampire story. Very creative and powerful characters. Linda Lael Miller did such a good job in describing her characters that I felt like I knew them so well. I loved Dathan's character with all his arrogance and sex appeal. Dimity was another character that I fell in love with and would like to get to know better. I would love to see Mrs. Miller come out with a book about that female vampire. Oooo, what a story that could be!

My only disappointment with the book was the love story line between Maeve; the main character and a female vampire and Calder; a mortal man. I found Calder's character to be weak and quite boring actually. The love story really got in the way of the exciting vampire story line. I noticed myself skimming quickly over the love story parts involving Calder and Maeve just so that I could get back into the great vampire stuff. I must admit though; I LOVED the vampire sex passages...very erotic!

This is a definite must read for all ! vampire fans.

FANTASTIC!
This is the best vampire book ever! The love story that develops between Maeve and Calder pales in contrast to the gripping scope of the deadly struggle between the forces of good and evil. I especially liked the scenes between Nemesis & Maeve--two very strong-willed characters. Ms. Miller has a beautiful way with words and a great imagination!

Much better than the first...
I really enjoyed the mythos created in FOR ALL ETERNITY. Thank goodness Valerian is back! Cheers. Maeve is an awesome character, the romance with Calder and his history was interesting, especially set in the Civil War, but the battle with Lisette and the consequences of the outcome.... WOW. Cool vampire romance. I still favor the Christine Feehan "Dark" series, but I will definitely be reading the next two L.L.Miller vamp novels! I also enjoyed the combined PB issue, SPRINGWATER SEASONS by L.L.Miller.